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Santa Cruz Indymedia | Police State and PrisonsPublic Space in Santa Cruz and the Surveillance Camera Walking Tour
On April 30th, I attended Free Skool Santa Cruz's Surveillance Camera Walking Tour. After meeting at the Clocktower, we walked up Mission Street to get a bird's eye view of the downtown. Our class started off with about a dozen people, including professor Winston Smith. In addition to pointing out cameras, our lesson for the day was to discuss various types of surveillance and the effects it has on individuals and society. Now we will take a peek into the loss of public space and personal privacy on Pacific Avenue.  hospitality-cop_4-30-06.jpg above: Downtown Homeless and Hippy Patrol
-------------------------- Here's the class description as published on the SC-IMC calendar. Free Skool Santa Cruz presents: Surveillance Camera Walking Tour Clocktower downtown with Winston Smith A Sunday stroll around the downtown grid identifying contemporary methods of surveillance. We will derivé, or drift, through the evermore controlled terrain of public space with the intention of understanding camera placements and capabilities, as well as the behaviors conditioned by the idiom 'you are being watched.' Sun Apr 30, Sun May 7 1pm ------------- For information on Free Skool Santa Cruz, check: http://santacruz.freeskool.org ------------ Only someone completely distrustful of all government would be opposed to what we are doing with surveillance cameras. -- NYC Police Commissioner Howard Safir, 27 July 1999. the Surveillance Camera Players: completely distrustful of all government. New York Surveillance Camera Players http://www.notbored.org/the-scp.html ------------ For more information on Surveillance, I highly suggest reading: The Soft Cage: Surveillance In America - From Slave Passes To The War On Terror http://www.akpress.org/2004/items/softcage Big Brother is watching you 24/7 http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0918/p20s02-bogn.html Here's some audio (and a rough transcript) focused on prisons and capitalism Lockdown America in 22 Minutes http://historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/audiocparenti.html mp3: http://historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/cparenti.mp3
New Leaf Camera Is Turned Around With Wires Snipped
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Speaker Was Used To Annoy People Hanging Out Near New Leaf
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Privatized Sidewalk on Pacific Avenue
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Mobile Vision Inside A Parked SCPD SUV on Pacific Avenue
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Everyone Likes A Bench.... Former Site of a Bench
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No Hanging Out Near The New Change Machine
 george_4-30-06.jpg Pacific Avenue and Elm Street
Across The Street: No Hanging Out Near The New Change Machine
 change_4-30-06.jpg Metro Center on Pacific Avenue
Cell Phone Towers Are A Major Tool For Surveillance
 cell-towers_4-30-06.jpg Comments (Hide Comments)Thanks for the photos and website contacts
Friday May 5th, 2006 12:30 PM
Much thanks giving visual life to abstract words. I hope to be on the next walking tour on Sunday.
Note--regarding your two photos of change machines across the street from each other near the Metro--that there is a third change making machine about 150' away from the other two inside the Metro Center itself. Matt Farrell, the Public Works staffer behind the Parking Lot Panic Law coming up at City Council this Tuesday at 3 PM (probably an hour or more later) made an interesting admission at a Downtown Commission meeting earlier this year. He volunteered that the change machine now planted where a bench once sat (at "Punk Corner" next to the Union Grove Music parking lot) was specifically put in to move along the crowd of 'undesireables' there. FOR THOSE INTERESTED: HUFF (Homeless United for Friendship & Freedom)'s Downtown Discipline Division will establish a special Parking Lot Overflow Training Area. 3 PM Saturday May 7th in front of Artisans (1368 Pacific, near Church St.) where we will be helping retrain those driven out of parking lots and garages to accomodate to their new spaces in front of the businesses on Pacific Ave. Bring a parasol and a lawn chair, if you wish. At 4 PM, we'll move to Bookshop Santa Cruz down the way, and perhaps take a page from the Surveillance Tour and research the mall for appropriate shops to come-out-of-the-rain under. |